Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-05-28
Omcial Paper OF Custer County.
For sash, doors, and wall paper call
Mt Fred Heidepriem's.

Try q glass of sodawater from Hitch
cocks new fountain TO be charged on
Monday. Name your flavor.
Well timed showers during the week
made vegetation smile and continue to
vegetate, or words to that effect.
Sioux City Gold Dust -four, the best
-four in Custer county, $3.50 per 100 lbs
at Cochran's.
A heavy hail storm of three quarters
of an hour duration is reported at War
rens gulch on Wednesday evening,
Van Devort has bought the Graves
and Smith furniture stock at Buffalo
Gap and is offering it at eastern prices.
A heavy rain visited this place on
Thursday which did not extend six
miles in any direction from this point.
Sioux City Standard -four, 1910 per
100 lbs. All other goods at correspond
ing low prices at Cochran's.
d. Carrigan now carries his right foot
in a sling, as a result Of over haste in
getting on the other side of his garden
fence.
Assaying done at Booth & Webster's.
Gold, S1.00; silver, $1.0C gold and sll-
yer, $3.50; copper 81 so; tin 81 90; nickel
$500.
The ladies Of the Methodist church
will give an ice-cream festival at the
court house on Monday evening, Nav
30th. Come everybody and have a good
time.
Grading on the extension Of the F.,
Z. and M. V. railroad north of Rapid
will be commenced the first Of next
week. About 400 teams will be EN-
ployed.
Cochran again to the front IL lbs
g~ranulated sugar for 81 90, the cheapest
house in the Black Hills.
Notwithstanding the heavy rain,
quite a number of our residents left for
Point Of Rocks for attendance at the
funeral of the late Mrs. Skinner on
Thursday.
/ am positively closing out my imple-
ment business and will clean out balance
of stock regardless Of time or price.
A. I. Van Devort,
Buffalo Gap, Oak.
Messrs. Cornell & Stewart, of Her.
mosa have been employed to supply the
court house with tin spouting, and have
been engaged in putting up the same
during the week.
Messrs. Kleemann and Clark have
been putting their brick gard in order
during the week, and will
moulding rs SOC az a competent
moulder can be secured.
III. A. Albien has recently completed
a very neat and attractive picket fence
around his residence property on Sixth
street, which encourages the believe
that Henry is here to stay.
Four self binders and five light reapers
at your own price, o N one years time. at
twelve per cent, to be extended one
year without interest, if crops are hailed
out. A. T.. Van Devort.
Another residence about to be erected
- tho porfbarn nart of tho o;t, ;nJ;o,t,,
the loss Of another member of the Gus
s ter City bachelor club. Our readers are
referred to Mr.. T. V. Garlock for further
particulars.
l.. B. Hammond, of Deadwood, re-
ceAtly sailed from New York for Alaska
with a large force of skilled workmen.
He will be absent six months in the
erection of large roasting and chloride
ing works for the Tredwell mine,
Douglas Island.
Court will not convene in Rapid until
June 18th, Judge Thomas having add
iourned the term until that time. This
will probably have the effect Of deferring
the Custer term until July 9Th, as it will
require about three weeks time to clear
the Rapid docket.
Now that the mud blockade has been
broken between Deadwood and Rapid,
we would be pleased TO learn why it is
that this Office receives the Deadwood
dailies in weekly installments, six at a
time, and a single copy of the Lead City
Tribune once a week.
Archie Riardon, deputy sheriff. came
in from the Gap on Wednesday, having
IN charge William DeLain, a young man
committed by Justice Putnam of that
place upon the charge Of petit larceny.
He completes the quartette in Sheriff
Porter's boarding house.
Thomas II. Munday, a man well adj
vanced in years, who by reason Of being
incapacitated for business or labor, by
protracted sickness. came in from BUT.
falo Gap the latter part of last week.
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